Right. Prices of electricity are magical, managed by overlords in their respective capitols. They have nothing to do with actual costs of production.

In other news, did you remember that we live in a real world with limited resources, not one where electricity comes out of the socket?

P.S. Nuclear energy remains the cheapest energy source available to date per produced energy unit. That is why states that don't have to care for psychological bullshit pushed here in the West by people like you on their impressionable and ignorant public are investing heavily in them. Think China. Some of the best and toughest negotiators in the world, and people with some of the greatest power needs in the world. And they're massively investing in nuclear. If you were even close to reality with your "nuclear is expensive" claims, they simply wouldn't be doing it.

There is no shifting of goalposts. All there is is dirt throwing on your part hoping some of it will stick. He clearly stated what he was talking about, you went to great pains to intentionally misunderstand what he was actually saying.

And then you proceeded to throw dirt at those who pointed your error out to you.

Interesting hypothesis.

I'll make it simple. please show me a bitcoin miner that can produce numbers you suggest on CPU in comparison to numbers produced on GPU while staying on approximately same cost levels.

I don't get it. You dig for singular problems in other states just to pretend that massive corruption and theft ingrained at all levels in your culture is somehow not as bad as it is.

No, they're still just as bad. And the people you are trying so hard to look for flaws at are poorer than you. And they're still paying for your thievery and corruption.

This is related to worker taxation. Not company taxation (what we actually call tax haven).

Essentially what happens is that you hire a worker, have him work in Finland and register his taxes in Estonia. That lets you pay your worker less because of lesser taxation, social benefits and standard of living.

This was a problem mostly back in the early days of the crisis, when people were looking for a way out. That's why news you quote is dated 5 years ago. Around 2012 we passed a reform which closed the relevant legal loophole and enabled checks by both tax officials and worker's union officials, as well as mandated that every foreign worker in relevant sector must register with tax office and carry a tax certificate when he's working.

So no, it's a completely different problem. And no, Estonians still paid taxes to their own state in that case. That was the initial issue. They chose to pay taxes back home rather than with us, which is what they were supposed to do.

How about no? Costs in Germany and Denmark are high because production is expensive. They have to both use very expensive forms of generation as well as buy foreign electricity (which means both paying for electricity and long range transfer across international exchange) to provide spinning reserve for it.

Germany and Denmark prices were much lower back when they were using cheaper forms of generation, such as nuclear.

And when talking about subsidies, you cannot miss the fact that German subsidies are far higher than anyone in Europe right now. And their price is still far higher than French.

I suspect the misunderstanding is on your part. I read the same post you did, and I drew a completely different conclusion than you.

The obvious problem being costs. Germany is a net exporter when its renewables are producing at maximum and electricity price is zero or negative because of overcapacity issues.

Poland sells to Germany when renewables are not producing and spot price is massively inflated due to lack of production that cannot meet demand.

As a result, while Germany is a net exporter in terms of electricity, it's a net importer in terms of value of electricity.

If you have difficulties grasping this, let me put this another way. Poland would do just fine if they cut off all their interconnects with Germany. Germany would have severe problems with reliability of their electric grid if this occurred however.

Are you perchance unaware of the fact that French electricity prices are among the LOWEST in Europe?

If you were even remotely correct with your claim, prices would surely be at least on AVERAGE level?

50% is realistic considering increase of exports to Germany, even if French industry declines. German long term policy has been largely about outsourcing their power production, and reliable high volume interconnects remain a pipe dream in central Europe.

That means Western and Southern Germany will continue being supplied from France for foreseeable future, just like Eastern and Northern is currently supplied from Poland.

You do not know how grid works. We know it already from your previous idiocy from relevant threads.

Renewables that are at risk of losing 100% of their capacity have to have 100% spinning reserve. That is the reality. If you don't, you risk cascade failure across the entire grid.

It has nothing to do with "vanishing wind". Biggest cut-off issues with wind power are related to too strong winds rather than too weak ones, as that causes near-instant cut-off rather than slow decay of feed in.

Ah yes, angelosphere. The ignorant trolling continues. You are incorrect on all accounts as usual.

1. "No enrichment of spent fuel rods" policy covers almost entire world minus France and to some extent Russia. This is largely because of proliferation movement combined with anti-nuclear lobby. Same process that is used to enrichment is also used for producing nuclear grade material which creates proliferation fears and anti-nuclear lobby is extremely successful in blocking anything nuclear related that would make it more sustainable, down to security upgrades to Fukushima reactors.

2. 96% figure is the amount of fissible U235 remaining as a portion of what was put in when fuel rod is extracted. 100% means amount of U235 on fresh rod. 96% of this remains when rod is extracted and considered "spent".

"We have to respect their laws while selling our products on their territory? HOW DARE THEY?"

Modern GPUs can be hundreds and even thousands of times faster than CPUs at highly parallelizible simple math. That's why things like bitcoin mining, which are exactly that were done on GPUs before they moved to even more specialized hardware.

That was a factually correct statement. Mac OS is the bastard cousin when it comes to desktop software. The flaming didn't start until 4th sentence.